Trust Responsibilities

St Benet’s MAT is collaborative.  We let Headteachers run their schools, we  engage with local communities and governors, and we put structures in place to secure accountability.

Certain responsibilities will always remain with the Board of Trustees:

• -  Headteacher recruitment
• -  Headteacher performance management
• -  Core Trust policies
• -  Approval of targets for pupil outcomes
• -  Appointment of the Local Governance Committee Chair

Our Central Team provides our schools with a range of services.  For example, the St Benet’s Leaders’ Forum brings together school leaders and Trust officers in a consultative and productive forum, determining the priorities and developmental needs of the schools within the strategic plans set by the Trust Board.

Trust officers and Headteachers recognise the particular strengths of individual teachers and use them in a specialist leader capacity; we have seen improvements to early years, writing, phonics and mathematics provision across the Trust.

Our Best Practice Groups bring together subject leaders and teachers from every school, from infants through to secondary, in creative and collaborative training sessions that shape curriculum development and provide reassurance and support.